WK2: Watching a drama with and without sound

I watched the drama called “Furi-ta- ie wo kau” This title is difficult to translate but it means a person who only have low wage part time job buys a house. When I watched it without sound, I thought I understood their relationships and what kind of topics they were talking about. After I watched it with sound, I found out that I got most of the relationships right even the details like a couple whose relationships are not going well even though they like each other. However, what they were talking about was rarely right and sometimes completely different from what I guessed. One interesting fact is that I didn’t remember some of the short scenes I watched without sound.  

For me the “aha” moment was in recognizing how the non-verbal messages still fit what was going on in the story, even though I had not gotten them right.  This means that we really should avoid acting as if we can understand what someone means with their non-verbal messages alone.  Most of the time knowing why someone is feeling the way they feel is just as important as knowing that they feel that way.